Leah Sandals, Alexander Gessner

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Oct. 29, 2017

Leah Rachel Field Sandals and Alexander Evan Gessner were married Oct. 28 at the Barnes Foundation, the art museum in Philadelphia. They were wed under Pennsylvania’s self-uniting marriage statute; Ilona Logvinova, a friend of the couple, led the ceremony.

Ms. Sandals, 32, is a director for communications and advocacy campaigns at Global Health Strategies, a consultancy in New York. She graduated from Columbia and is also a founder of SlantShack, which sells jerky online and in retail stores.

She is the daughter of Alisa G. Field and Alan M. Sandals of Philadelphia. Her mother is a trustee of the KIPP Philadelphia Schools, which are part of a national network of college-preparatory charter schools. Her father is a lawyer in private practice in Philadelphia.

Mr. Gessner, 33, is the director of data and engineering at ShopKeep, a company in New York that provides point-of-sale services to small businesses. He graduated and received a master’s degree, in systems and information engineering, from the University of Virginia.

He is a son of Jill Brenner Gessner and David M. Gessner of Rockville, Md. The groom’s mother is a manager of Camp JCC, a summer program in Rockville of Bender JCC of Greater Washington. His father was until earlier this month the finance director of the American Psychiatric Association in Arlington, Va.